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Oreoeharis Henryana (F 262) grows in similar sites, but not only likes 

 cool ones as markedly, but is much more partial to damp atmosphere, and even 

 to a certain damp in its soil ; growing magnificent on dank mossy limestone rocks 

 in the depths of the Mo Ping canon, and often abounding — as in the debouchure 

 of the Siku gorge, and at intervals in the lower reaches of the Nan Ho Valley 

 — on very steep banks of a stony, rather clammy silt (which grows a certain 

 film of earth-moss characteristic of such cloggy cool surfaces) from which it 

 spreads happily in and out of the lower fringes of scant scrub and herbage, 

 always preferring an aspect steep to the point of being sheer. Here the rosettes 

 are dully green and only hairy, resembling exactly that specially sinuate form 

 of Ramondia pyrenaica which is called R. p. quercifolia. The scapes are slightly 

 shorter and stouter than in Boea, with fewer and much larger flowers — little 

 thimble-shaped inverted Gloxinias in a charming blend of shrimp-pink and 

 coppery flesh-tones, borne in a flying panicle in August. It ought to prove 

 easier than F 261, and at least as delightful, in similar situations ; both 

 continue their mimicry of Eamondia in having quite microscopic seed, which 

 should be carefully sown accordingly on a silty surface and most tenderly 

 watched. (This also, worse luck, is delicate ; will neither thrive nor survive 

 out of doors.) 



Paeonia Sp. (F 67) (? P. Beresowshji) abounds between 8000 and 

 9000 feet on the Alps of Thundercrown and Satanee — not a woodland plant, 

 but loving grassy stony dells and glades on the open alp, in a way that 

 carries one back to the pirjk Peonies on Baldo. F 67 is in my eyes a 

 species of singular charm and delightfulness ; it has voluminous lucent 

 foliage, and stems of 12 to 20 inches, carrying several flowers in all sorts 

 of clear and clean tones of rosy pink, light or dark, with a golden eye of 

 stamens, and so intoxicating a fragrance of roses that all the hill becomes a 

 rose-garden as you go by its generous jungles of large and lovely blossom 

 in May and June. 



Pleione Sp. (F 4) is an Indian Crocus of extraordinary beauty. It was 

 only seen at one point of the Feng-S'an Ling, deep down in a profound slaty 

 river-gorge, heavily shaded and perfectly sheltered, so that I dare not yet assert 

 its hardiness. Here it grows in big masses, up and up on the shelving ledges 

 of the dark cliff, in the accumulated leaf-mould fallen from the trees above. 

 On 28th April it was but just opening; yet already, such is its prodigality of 

 blossom, the twilight of the cliff was aglow with countless bright blots of colour 

 from its clumped blossoms of crimson-purple, with their great lips crested and 

 ridged with pure vermilion. Several bulb-mats of this were sent home ; but 

 none arrived alive. 



Pleione Sp. (F 158) is no less rare, but not so brilliant a thing. I have 

 only once seen it, growing on the cooler face of an inaccessible church-big 

 boulder high up in the mouth of the Siku gorge, where, on the ledges of vegetable 

 mould, it grew in little clusters of 2 or 3 bulbils, rooting along in the 

 surface-carpet of a small dry Selaginella that here covers all the shelves of the 

 cliffs. It has corrugated leaves of bright green, and the flower, so far as I 



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